Marcion and Luke-Acts

Building on recent scholarship that argues for a second-century date for the book of Acts, Marcion and Luke-Acts explores the probable context for the authorship not only of Acts but also of the canonical Gospel of Luke. Tyson proposes that both Acts and the final version of Luke were published at the time when Marcion of Pontus was beginning to proclaim his version of the Christian gospel, in the years 120125 C.E. Tyson positions the controversy with Marcion as a defining struggle over the very meaning of the Christian message and the author of Luke-Acts as a major participant in that contest.